E70 Trade, marketing and distribution

 

E Economic, Development and rural Sociology
E70  Trade, marketing and distribution

Do not include information on this subject unless it deals with agricultural trade;

Trade: exchange, purchase or sale of agricultural commodities or products used in agricultural

production;

Marketing including the operations connected with the movement of agricultural commodities or

productsused in agricultural production from producer to consumer, such as coordination of

manufacture, standardization, purchase, sale, sales promotion, advertising, publicizing, shipping,

distribution; wholesale and retail marketing; auctioning other methods of selling; trade fairs, exhibitions;

Distribution policies, costs and methods;

Supply and demand; market research and analysis, forecasting; econometric models of markets;

Price fixing and maintenance;

Quality, standard and content labelling; trademarks used to identify marketed products;

Grading: classification of agricultural products according to standards of uniformity, size,

freedom from blemish or disease, fineness, quality, etc.

 

For: common guaranteed prices in international trade, see E71

consumer economics, see E73

domestic trade, see E72

feed inspection, see Q53

food inspection, see Q03

international trade, see E71

packaging, see Q80

processing of agricultural products, see Q01 - Q80

protection of agricultural products, see J10 - J15

storage of agricultural products, see J10 - J15

transport of agricultural products, see J10 - J15

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